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THERE is no better place to have an affair than Ho Chi Minh City. Virtually every block in the city has a hotel or guesthouse whose front-desk clerk won't bat an eye as you check in with your paramour. What happens in Saigon, as it's still known, stays in Saigon.



London Metal Exchange in Play: The London Metal Exchange said Friday that it had received several expressions of interests for the company and was considering its options. The exchange, which is owned by its members, said it had hired the merger advisory boutique Moelis & Company to help start a "formal process which may or may not lead to an acceptable offer for the company."



《中英對照讀新聞》Marriage ’cancer survival impact’ 婚姻對癌症生存有影響
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Married people are more likely to survive cancer, whereas those going through a break-up have the worst chance of beating it, a study shows.
已婚者比較可能在罹癌後生還，而經歷分手的人，戰勝癌症的機率最低，一項研究顯示。
US researchers from Indiana University analysed data on 3.8m people diagnosed with cancer between 1973 and 2004. They found people who were married had a 63% chance of surviving five years, compared to 45% of people who were separated, the journal Cancer reported.
美國印第安那大學的研究人員，分析380萬名在1973到2004年間被診斷出癌症的人。研究人員發現，已婚者的五年存活機率有63%，分居者45% ，「癌症」期刊指出。
The team said the stress of break-up probably affected survival rates. Previous studies have looked at the impact of marriage on health outcomes. Many have found a beneficial effect with experts suggesting the love and support of a partner is essential in battling against illness.This theory is supported by the findings of the latest study.
研究團隊表示，分手的壓力可能影響存活率。過去已有研究觀察婚姻對健康的影響，許多研究發現好的影響，專家認為，伴侶的愛與支持是對抗疾病的重要因素。這項理論獲得這份最新研究的支持。
The researchers looked at five and 10-year survival rates for married, widowed, divorced and never-married patients as well as those going through a separation at the time of diagnosis. After marriage, never-married patients had the best outcomes, followed by those who had been divorced and then widowers.
研究人員觀察在診斷時為已婚、鰥寡、離婚與從未結婚以及分居的病患5年到10年的存活率，已婚者存活率最高，其次是從未結婚的病患，接著依序為已離婚與鰥寡人士。
新聞辭典
whereas：連接詞，卻、而。例句：He must be about sixty, whereas his wife looks about thirty.（他一定有大概60歲了，不過他的太太看來大概30。）
conj.

1. It being the fact that; inasmuch as.
2. While at the same time.
3. While on the contrary.

n.

1. An introductory statement to a formal document; a preamble.
2. A conditional statement.

go through：片語，經歷、通過。例句：A council spokeswoman said that the proposals for the new shopping centre were unlikely to go through.（議會女發言人表示，新購物中心的提案不可能通過。）
break-up：名詞，分手。例句：Long separations had contributed to their marriage break-up.（長期分居造成他們婚姻破裂。）


aporia

1. A figure of speech in which the speaker expresses or purports to be in doubt about a question.
2. An insoluble contradiction or paradox in a text's meanings.

aporia

• 名
• 1. アポリア◆相反する命題が存在することによる不両立、矛盾、混乱
• 2. 疑念｛ぎねん｝、疑惑｛ぎわく｝

p.68 -9 人生日日為 aporia-- "logical difficulty without solution"

aporia

An aporia is a figure of speech that occurs when a speaker expresses doubt about his or her position or asks the audience rhetorically how he or she should proceed. Such doubt is often feigned.
Examples:

• What examples could I possibly use?
• How could I begin to describe the beauty of the desert?

It can also be used as a term to describe an impasse or insoluable contradiction in a text.
Plural is aporiae.

1. A figure of speech in which the speaker expresses or purports to be in doubt about a question.
2. An insoluble contradiction or paradox in a text's meanings.

[Greek, difficulty of passing, from aporos, impassable : a-, without; see a–¹ + poros, passage.]

In recent decades one of the more influential discussions of philosophical arguments is that by Nicholas Rescher in his book The Strife of Systems. Rescher models philosophical problems on what he calls aporia or an aporetic cluster: a set of statements, each of which has initial plausibility but which are jointly inconsistent. The only way to solve the problem, then, is to reject one of the statements. If this is correct, it constrains how philosophical arguments are formulated.

System and aporia

Derrida received the 2001 Adorno Prize, named after Theodor Adorno. In accepting this award, Derrida noted both differences and affinities with Adorno. Their treatment of aporia was noted as an affinity. Aporia comes from the Greek απορια (from α-πορος) meaning "the impassable". The aporetic was a recurring structure for Derrida: Derrida strived to render as determinate as possible an interpretation, finding a series of "undecidable" decisions between a series of determinate constructions of interpretations. These passages through impossible decisions are unavoidable, according to Derrida, and potentially lead to a model of responsibility. This is not "boutique multiculturalism"; there is no safety rail of respect for others that provides any kind of guarantee. This is also philosophy's hope, its chance, the opening onto the future. This matter is outlined in "Nietzsche and the Machine" (with Richard Beardsworth, in Negotiations, ed. Elizabeth Rottenberg). In his "Circumfession" he beholds a philosophical fantasy of an easier way:

"From the invisible inside, where I could neither see nor want the very thing I have always been scared to have revealed on the scanner, by 'analysis' — radiology, echography, endocrinology, hematology — a crural vein expelled my blood outside that I thought beautiful once stored in that bottle under a label that I doubted could avoid confusion or misappropriation of the vintage, leaving me nothing more to do, the inside of my life exhibiting itself outside, 'expressing' itself before my eyes, absolved without a gesture, dare I say of writing if I compare the pen to the syringe, and I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe, a suction point rather than that very hard weapon with which one must inscribe, incise, choose, calculate, take ink before filtering the inscribable. playing the keyboard on the screen, whereas here, once the right vein has been found, no more toil, no responsibility, no risk of bad taste or violence, the blood delivers itself all alone, the inside gives itself up, and you can do as you like with it, it's me but I'm no longer there..." ( Derrida, pp, 10–12)

In Derrida's view, the system-dream of philosophy is a promise on which it cannot deliver. Philosophy would like to deliver its complete system, here and now: its absolute work made manifest to its reader, the end of philosophy being the end of philosophy. Heidegger speaks of a return to the most ancient origins of thought, to the first questions before the divisions of thought into logic and ethics as the future of philosophy, as a matter of giving philosophy a future, but we might expect this philosophy to be a brief, Heidegger's Rapture before all is resolved.

boutique

• [buːtíːk]
• 
  

[名]

1 ブティック, 特選店.

2 （専門化された業務を効率よく行う小規模の）専門（特約）機関［会社］, 専門（代行）業者

boutique hotel
質の高い小ホテル.

3 （少量の高級ワインを醸造する）銘醸ワイナリー.

［フランス語「小さな店」←ギリシャ語apothēke（倉庫）. △APOTHECARY］

bat3

Syllabification: (bat)

Pronunciation: /bat/

Translate bat | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

verb (bats, batting, batted)

[with object]

• flutter one’s eyelashes, typically in a flirtatious manner:she batted her long dark eyelashes at him

Phrases

not bat (or without batting) an eyelid (or eye or eyelash)

informal show (or showing) no reaction:she paid the bill without batting an eyelid

Origin:

late 19th century: from dialect bat 'to wink, blink', variant of obsolete bate 'to flutter'

paramour

Syllabification: (par·a·mour)

Pronunciation: /ˈparəˌmo͝or/

noun

• a lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person.

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French par amour 'by love'; in English the phrase was written from an early date as one word and came to be treated as a noun